The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery.

To live is enough.

The practice of mindfulness is the practice of being alive in the present moment.

As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind.

Whoever told you that practice and enlightenment are separate?

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Time passes unhindered. When we make ourselves better, we make the world better.

To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening.

Concentration develops naturally through continuous noting. Don't try to force concentration to arise.

The way to change the world is to change your own mind.

Mindfulness means keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality.

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion.

The key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion.

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.

Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.

There are many ways to meditate. But at the heart of them all is mindfulness.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

The Buddha's teaching is a middle way between all extremes, between eternalism and annihilationism, between self-indulgence and self-torture.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

All experiences are preceded by mind, led by mind, made by mind. Speak or act with a corrupted mind, and suffering follows as the wagon wheel follows the hoof of the ox.

When you understand that all phenomena are impermanent, unsatisfactory, and non-self, attachment naturally falls away.

The path is the goal. Every step of the journey is the journey.

Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things.

Nothing can harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

The real purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

It is never too late to turn on the light.

When you note pain, you should not dwell on the thought, "I feel pain." Simply recognize the presence of pain.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

True happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through cultivation of altruism, of love, of compassion.

To what shall I compare this life? It is like a boat that left at dawn, leaving no trace.